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title: my cousin says if u eat yellow snow u die instantly lol. probably bl… — Snow, ice and strong sun · tree and pragmatics
description: my cousin says if u eat yellow snow u die instantly lol. probably blown up? Test 19 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 19 · ★★ · Snow, ice and strong sun

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my cousin says if u eat yellow snow u die instantly lol. probably blown up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin, u · **What happens:** say, eat, die, blow up · **To what, where:** yellow snow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/234-snow-ice-and-sun/#t19).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun:t19:1
# text = my cousin says if u eat yellow snow u die instantly lol. probably blown up?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	u	u	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
14	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | u | yellow snow |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | u *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **blow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That snow can be dirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun:t19:o1:1
# text = That snow can be dirty
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | that snow |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Instantly; but don't eat yellow or dirty snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun:t19:o2:1
# text = Instantly; but don't eat yellow or dirty snow
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | yellow snow |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That snow is frozen water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun:t19:o3:1
# text = That snow is frozen water
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | present · passive |  | that snow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That yellow snow can be animal pee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:234-snow-ice-and-sun:t19:o4:1
# text = That yellow snow can be animal pee
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pee	pee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | that yellow snow | animal pee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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